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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-02-28 09:20:09 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-04-02 09:52:09 -0700
commit63b9e81c411c2221260124d4a167aab4c24ff603 (patch)
tree38108d26e539159e13b7e33a122012d332d05cac /drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
parent32c5edbdda0e9737b0667036ef1210eb0284c54b (diff)
USB: ftdi_sio: fix problem when the manufacture is a NULL string
commit 656d2b3964a9d0f9864d472f8dfa2dd7dd42e6c0 upstream. On some misconfigured ftdi_sio devices, if the manufacturer string is NULL, the kernel will oops when the device is plugged in. This patch fixes the problem. Reported-by: Wojciech M Zabolotny <W.Zabolotny@elka.pw.edu.pl> Tested-by: Wojciech M Zabolotny <W.Zabolotny@elka.pw.edu.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
index f030471363e..d170b2ad11a 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
@@ -1763,7 +1763,8 @@ static int ftdi_8u2232c_probe(struct usb_serial *serial)
dbg("%s", __func__);
- if (strcmp(udev->manufacturer, "CALAO Systems") == 0)
+ if ((udev->manufacturer) &&
+ (strcmp(udev->manufacturer, "CALAO Systems") == 0))
return ftdi_jtag_probe(serial);
return 0;